The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-04
ABOUT THE WASP.
Some OF His Distinguishing Charac.
teristics.

wasp They cannot forget its sting
The prejudice is not an admirable one
as some prejudices are; race prejudice
for instance, which IL the making O
nations. But not this one agains
wasps. For it is really only a protcs
against vigorous personality, against
the assertion of individual power. In
the human species there are wasps--
strong'fighted men, whom most fear,
and many, out of our sheer weakness,
hate. for their robustness of mind and
their INTELLECTUAL aggressiveness. Such
do not worAin wax, nor store honey
Yet the workmanship of bees. as com.
pared with that of wasps, is the work
manship of blind mutes initiating .
pattern by touch of fingers as com
pared with that of uncrippled and in
dependent intellect. The life history
OF the wasp, too, is far more worthy
of self than the hive folk. Sting?
Of course they do, if necessity arises,
and often, grateful to Providence fol-
the weapon, they make the necessity
for themselves. Ought they TO keep
their talents wrapped in napkinsP
No one likes bees better than do.
have kept hives. But, after all, they
are not the cattle and poultry of the in
sectsP They are the sheep, while the
wasps are the wild deer. The one rep
resents routine, the other one protests
against routine What poetry is there
in the lives of bees as compared with
that OF wasps?-in the tame citizen
ship of the artificial hive, the machine.
made honey comb, rs compared with
the romance of the woodland comb
maker? Both bee and wasp need
honey; but the latter when he has not
the leisure Tor the willy to gather it for
itself, goes after the former. What,
no, there!n it cries. You bumbline
fellow, in your jerkin of woody brown,
stand and deiver" and the bee does
A pirate of the air? highwaymar
of skyey roads and heathsp No, no
not at all. This is the way of cour
ageous genius, that knows how to take
the bricks which the diligent mechanic.
al student has been piling up into reg
ular heaps in his brick-yard, and te
build beautiful houses with them. Left
alone, they would have been piles OF
bricks, and nothing more, forever and
a day. But better man comes along
and bravely possesses himself of them.
you can go and rummage for more"
To says to the toiler among the clay;
that is your life-work-to make bricks.
Mine is to build with the bricks which
you make" OF course, the bee buzzes
and says: "You mustn't; you really
ought not | want the honey myslei
10 fill a cell with" The wasp replies
Deliver, or you are dead bee." Or
,nppose they argue more calmly:
What are you doingP" demands the
wasp, Going home with my honey.
'ag," replies the other What forP"
TO fill a cell with" well, what
HEMP When the cell is filled what
hall you dop" "Shut il up and begin
another" is the reply. "And thenP'
Fill that up, too, and begin another
imagine the generous fury of the wasp
'Oh, thou authenticated fly! And is
hat the end of lifc-to fill cells with
honey and eat none? To sweat all the
hummer through and have no harvest
If your toll? o thou gross one Thou
Thou miser of honey.
bags! Perpetually filling for others to
Toid-and without the wit TO see that
hou art the sport of spendthrifts. Out
If this! Give up your honey, or, odd
looks! this rapier at the end of me ,
hall rid the world of n numskull {
'ariet." But, like the sturdy good ,
,itizen that he is, the bee often refuses !
o surrender, and then woe to him, the
DOOR honest fellow in his fustian coat ! !
COR my gentleman whips out his bod. !
lin, and there is an end of the bee.
In short there is great deal to say s
bout the wasp, and in its favor. 1t. !
oldierly ways, so smart and alert !
he lancer in the field, a gladiator at :
eed. When they 60 abroad It is with !
Military notwithstanding, skirmish. )
ng, foraging, fighting. And the nest !
; citadel. There is no "bumbling"